On this page, I have included brief explanations of some of my assignments from the course.
- ISTE-NETS Lesson Plan: This lesson plan was created for 5th grade math. It has a 10.5hrs timeline, 90mins per day for seven days. As for standards, it relates to 5.MD.5 for content and 1.a & 3.b for NETS*S. It uses three websites for games and a search engine. It includes independent, whole class, and small group activities.
- Virtual High Schools Essay (Critique): Over 90 courses* for virtual schooling are offered to many West Virginia high school students. The advantages of that seem to outweigh the disadvantages, which is the opposite case for elementary and middle schools, so the high school-only current availability seems appropriate. Below are some of the advantages and disadvantages of virtual schooling across the different grade levels.
- Survey Monkey (Math Opinions): After analyzing the data of my classmates, it seems that the majority of the participants know their 0s, 1s, and 2s multiplication facts, and most also knew their 10s and 11s. The data from the second question showed that the majority of participants like math done in interactive group games best, followed by on paper or a dry erase board, on the Internet, and on an iPad app. A little over a third of the survey participants voted to practice multiplication facts during Morning Math while an equal amount voted to practice multi-digit multiplication. The fourth question revealed that to most participants, math is enjoyable "sometimes", math is challenging "sometimes", they work hard in math "often", and they want to work harder in math "sometimes".
- Podcast (Wiki Purpose): This podcast explains the purpose of my Wiki, which is to share what I've learned by getting the field experience before the schooling. Anyone who has worked/is working with students in math, ELA, or SEL/behavior who plans to later pursue a career in teaching could benefit from it. The most challenging part of creating it was choosing a topic and the least challenging part was navigating the site.
- MovieMaker (Creative Math iMovie): This movie was created to show some creative ways to make math more engaging and entertaining for students. The movie includes using "playroom items" such as a tower game with math facts, dice and playing cards to choose numbers, spinners used as timers, beach balls to keep attention, and rhymes & jingles to help students remember concepts and topics.
- Digital Age Learners Essay: This essay explains my thoughts on how current industrial-age style classrooms tend to work against the cognitive and digital learning styles of students today, digital natives. They are hypercommunicating multitaskers with brains rewired for technology and in the classroom, that is often viewed as ADD rather than a skill developed and needed for the 21st century and the future of technology.
- Voki (Wiki Purpose): This Voki explains the purpose of my wiki. The message is similar to the podcast, just more interactive.
- Spreadsheet Grade Book: This spreadsheet grade book includes student test and homework scores, test and homework averages, and the medians, maximums, minimums, modes, ranges, and sums of both tests, all by formula. The final grade for each students is also graphed.
- Prezi: This Prezi showed my path to the MAT program and the valuable skills I've learned along the way.
- Website Evaluation: I used a Rubistar-created rubric to evaluate the Khan Academy website in the areas of navigation, authority, affiliation, purpose, objectivity, content, learning process, audience, currency, and design.